20 Aug
2004
20 Aug
'04
1:33 p.m.
From: "Antonio Carlini"
<a.carlini(a)ntlworld.com>
Hi
I'm in the US and have no problem looking at it??
Dwight
Bizarre. Ebay does not allow me to see that item.
It says "due to
restrictions in your home country" which is utter nonsense. It's
possible that the UK has export restrictions, but that's not what it
said...
Don't you think it's more likely that the Dept. Of Homeland
Security is responsible ... after all, they can't be sure
that you're not a terrorist :-)
As for UK export restrictions, who knows? The seller
seems to be willing to ship world-wide!
Antonio
20 Aug
20 Aug
2:31 p.m.
I'm in the US and have no problem looking at
it??
Dwight
They have limited resources so obviously they cannot
implement everything over night. Stage one blocks
and monitors people with funny foreign names ...
you're probably stage two (that's people who
miss smileys and so can't be that suspicious :-)).
FWIW If I log on to one of the work machines that
lives in the US I can see the auction from there
too - so maybe Paul really is being watched :-)
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
23 Aug
23 Aug
4:39 a.m.
>>>> "Dwight" == Dwight K Elvey
<dwight.elvey(a)amd.com> writes:
>> Bizarre. Ebay does not allow me to see that
item. It says "due
>> to restrictions in your home country" which is utter nonsense.
>> It's possible that the UK has export restrictions, but that's not
>> what it said...
Dwight> Hi I'm in the US and have no problem looking at it?? Dwight
Strange. I guess Ebay UK is defective.
Dwight was kind enough to forward a pointer to the picture. It looks
like a "Baudot" code machine (three rows, "figures" and
"letters"
keys). The keyboard layout is German (or for another German-speaking
country where the QWERTZ layout is used). The labels are French and
German, which suggests it might be Swiss manufacture, but I can't make
out the manufacturer's name.
No way is this WW2 vintage, nor is it an Enigma. It's been too lnog
since I read Kahn, so I can't remember what other rotor machines
existed a couple of decades ago. Might it be an M209 clone?
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